Sarta (Chalcidice)

Sarta or Sarte (Ancient Greek: Σάρτη)^[1] was a maritime town on the Sithonia peninsula of Chalcidice, in ancient Macedonia, on the Singitic Gulf between Singus and the promontory of Ampelus.

It is cited by Herodotus as one of the cities—together with Pilorus, Singus, and Assa—located near Mount Athos, which Xerxes ordered to open a channel through which his fleet passed, and from which he recruited troops in his expedition of the year 480 BCE against Greece.^[2]

It belonged to the Delian League, since it appears in the tribute registry of Athens from 434/3 to 415/4 BCE.^[3]

Its site is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of modern Sarti.^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
^ Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 7.122.
^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Thrace from Axios to Strymon". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 840. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 51, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Sarta". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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